Continuing their interview from earlier this week, MTV's Splash Page discussed the in-development Flash film with comic book author and screenwriter Marc Guggenheim, who reiterated that the current screenplay has a darker, crime element and will focus on the investigational side of its lead.

"When Barry Allen was the character, he was a science policeman, "Guggenheim explains, "We’re obviously updating that and now he’s in forensics and CSI. The tone is sort of darker, and more like "Seven" and "Silence of the Lambs" in that mysterious and noir-ish way, which is also working in conjunction with the superhero elements... There's also an element of a sports movie, because the character is so physical and I feel like there is an athleticism to his power that other superheroes don’t have."

Though Guggenheim also acknowledges that the Flash has some of comicdom's most colorful villains, he remains mum on which of them may make it to the big screen when development on The Flash moves forward.

Dan Mazeau, whose screenplay for Wrath of the Titans is realized in theaters today, is also the man behind a number of upcoming genre projects, including Bleach, The Flash and Jonny Quest. IFC caught up with Mazeau and managed to get a few updates about all three.

"I'm currently working on 'Bleach' and the idea is to set it in Japan and really be respectful to the source material," says Mazeu. "It's an amazing story. I've been shorthanding it as an 'action-adventure 'Sixth Sense',' but obviously on a bigger canvas than that. So I'm incredibly excited about that. Its a good one.”

The Flash and Jonny Quest, meanwhile, share a sticking point in getting to the big screen in that both scripts are in search of a specific talent to bring the printed page to live. In the case of the former, the search is on for a director that can realize Mazeau's Barry Allen tale.

"[H]e can't just be a guy who runs fast," Mazeau explains.

For Jonny Quest, the holdup is largely in finding a young actor who can balance the bigger-than-life adventures of the title character but who also has the dramatic side necessary for the film's more serious elements.

"There's real weight to it," says Mazeau of his script. "People die in the 'Jonny Quest' cartoons. I think 'Spy Kids’'was fun, but it's lighter than what 'Jonny Quest' would be."

Though The Flash is racing around on The CW every Tuesday night, Warner Bros. continues to develop a feature film version of the character to tie into their larger DC Cinematic Universe and they’ve just taken a big step forward. Deadline reports that The LEGO Movie and 21 Jump Street writer/directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are in the process of writing a treatment for the scarlet speedster’s big screen adaptation. It’s unclear if the pair will direct the feature, though it remains a possibility.

Last year, it was revealed that We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Perks of Being a Wallflower star Ezra Miller had been cast in the role of The Flash for the upcoming Justice League Part One, and potentially next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, though which version of the character it will be has yet to be confirmed. The Flash is currently set for release March 23, 2018, just six weeks ahead of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 on May 4, 2018.

Grant Gustin currently plays The Flash in the hit CW series, but the character has previously been played by the likes of John Wesley Shipp in the 1990 series and Kyle Gallner in “Smallville.” Adam Brody was previously cast in the role for Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller’s defunct Justice League film.

It was revealed last month that Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street) are writing Warner Bros. Pictures’ upcoming big screen take on DC Comics’ fastest man alive. Although it was already revealed that The Flash, set for release March 23, 2018, will star Ezra Miller as Central City’s scarlet speedster, Lord announced during The Hippojuice Podcast (via /Film), that The Perks of Being a Wallflower star will likely be playing a new iteration of Barry Allen as opposed to one of the other men who have, in the comics, appeared as the hero.

“We’re trying to break a story,” says Lord. “It’s interesting, because there’s a really popular TV show out there, and we’re trying to carve out space for the movie that’s apart from that. I think we’re doing alright. …I believe [our Flash] is going to be Barry Allen. …We’re more trying to stick with the cinematic universe… it really is its own thing and is kind of a stand-alone movie. We’re just trying to think of the best story. I think you guys will like it, it’s kind of a different take on superhero stuff. I’m optimistic!”

Miller is expected to also appear as Allen in Justice League Part One and, although unconfirmed, could even make a debut in next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Grant Gustin currently plays The Flash on the hit CW series, which concludes its first season on Tuesday night on The CW.

Lord also spoke briefly about the animated Spider-Man film he and Miller have in early development at Sony Pictures, although it doesn’t sound like there are any solid details to share quite yet. You can check out the entire interview for yourself in the player below:

What will happen to Chris Miller and Phil Lord's other directorial projects - namely their Flash feature, a third Jump St, and an animated Spider-Man - now that they're helming a Han Solo standalone film for 2018?

According to THR, it's likely that The Flash feature the pair were developing for Warner Bros is now off the table. The same goes for the third movie in their successful Jump St series. However, they could stay on as writer or producer for both these projects.

The animated Spider-Man feature they were developing for Sony will be less affected, considering they expressed no intentions to direct it.

Earlier today, it was announced that Miller and Lord will be directing a Han Solo standalone movie, detailing the events that led to Solo becoming the smuggler we first meet in the Mos Eisley cantina on Tattooine. The film is due to open in theatres on May 25, 2018.

When Ezra Miller was cast as Barry Allen/The Flash for a solo movie as well as participation in other DC Cinematic Universe movies such as Justice League it was considered an unconventional choice, but a recent interview with MTV shows that the acclaimed indie actor (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Stanford Prison Experiment) is more than game to take on the role.

“Barry Allen is the hero of the Silver Age who follows a lot of really interesting discoveries in physics,” says Miller. “Where he comes from is where we figured out the Event Horizon was there, and he was the character who was created through our mythos machine of comic books to break that Event Horizon, so you could explore in fantasy… I think that’s an interesting idea. And, what’s an interesting idea to me is, ‘What the f**k does that do to someone?’”

Miller’s infectious enthusiasm also extends to “The Flash” TV series, whose second season begins airing on The CW this October 6.

“I’m not avoiding it at all,” Miller says of the show. “I think it’s awesome! C’mon, we’re The Flash! It’s parallel universes! Grant Gustin is The Flash AND I’m The Flash, don’t you see? It’s the Event Horizon, we crossed it baby! Grant and I are chillin’, we’re gonna have a race, it’s gonna be dope. Like Jay Garrick and Barry Allen back in the day.”

An admitted longtime comic book fan, Miller is using his role as a means to truly do a deep dive into fanboy lore.

“I’ve been a comic guy, but I’m going in as hard as possible because I have a serious excuse to,” Miller enthuses. “I have the ultimate license to geek out SO HARD all the time!”

Featuring a screenplay by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, The Flash solo movie is set for release March 23, 2018, while Justice League Part One will be directed by Zack Snyder and released on November 10, 2017.

The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter writer Seth Grahame-Smith has been tapped to write and direct Warner Bros. upcoming The Flash movie! The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have written a treatment for the film, which they were considering to direct, but have since been tapped for the upcoming Han Solo movie from Disney and Lucasfilm.

Grahame-Smith has previously written the screenplays for Dark Shadows, Beetlejuice 2, and the upcoming The LEGO Batman Movie. The film would mark his feature directorial debut, having previously directed two episodes of his short-lived TV series “The Hard Times of RJ Berger.”

Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Perks of Being a Wallflower) will star as the titular hero in the upcoming film, which is set for release on March 3, 2018. Miller will make his debut as Barry Allen in next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice on March 25, 2016 and in Justice League Part One on November 17, 2017.

Though it’s been confirmed that the DC Entertainment television shows and feature films are unrelated, it will be interesting to see the correlation between Grant Gustin’s version of The Flash from the popular CW series and Miller’s version in the feature.

Though Grant Gustin is saving the world every week on The CW as Barry Allen, Warner Bros. Pictures has a different version of the character set to take over the big screen with We Need to Talk About Kevin star Ezra Miller as the Scarlet Speedster. Speaking with EW, Miller opened up about playing the character and what he hopes he’ll be able to do with it as an actor.

“Well, [first] it’s going to be a movie, I’d like for it to be an exploration of a human being, a multi-dimensional human being, to speak…Wow, I just made such a pun, without meaning to….I’d like the character to have many dimensions. But really, I’d like him to have the usual dimensions we know and love, and then some extra ones that are part of the amazing consideration of this superhero. I hope to realize him as a person, and I think what’s most exciting for me in superhero mythologies is when we feel the humanity of someone who is heroic — or the heroism of someone who is a flawed, deeply human person.”

The planned film version of The Flash is set to debut in theaters March 3, 2018 and will be written and directed by Seth Grahame-Smith.

Miller will make his debut as the character in 2017’s Justice League: Part One where he will join Henry Cavill as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, and Ray Fisher as Cyborg. Though unconfirmed, it’s possible Miller could cameo in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice beforehand.

With the DC Films Presents: Dawn of the Justice League special having aired shortly after The Flash midseason premiere on The CW Tuesday, fans of the show were reminded that the show’s star, Grant Gustin, is not playing Barry Allen on the big screen. In the Warner Bros. Pictures film, directed by Seth Grahame-Smith, the character will be played by Ezra Miller. Naturally, some fans spoke out about how they want to see Gustin in the movie instead, though Gustin thinks they got the wrong impression of what he thinks of the situation. He tweeted the following tonight:

The planned film version of The Flash is set to debut in theaters March 23, 2018. Miller will make his debut as the character in 2017’s Justice League Part One where he will join Henry Cavill as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, and Ray Fisher as Cyborg.

The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Warner Bros. planned film of The Flash has lost its director, Seth Grahame-Smith, citing creative differences over the project. Grahame-Smith, the screenwriter of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and previous drafts of Beetlejuice 2, was set to make his directorial debut with the film which has a treatment written by The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Perks of Being a Wallflower) is set to star as the fastest man alive, Barry Allen aka The Flash, in the film which is slated to be released on March 16, 2018. The actor made his debut as the character in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, both in his civilian gear and a version of the character’s costume, offering a warning to Ben Affleck’s Batman.

Miller is reprising his role in the upcoming Justice League film which is shooting now in London with director Zack Snyder at the helm.

Following last month’s departure of the formerly-attached Seth Grahame-Smith, Warner Bros. Pictures‘ The Flash movie has today found a new helmer. Deadline reports that the studio has hired Rick Famuyiwa.

Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Perks of Being a Wallflower) will play Barry Allen, aka The Flash, following his recent cameo appearance in this year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Miller’s version of the Flash is also set to appear in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Justice League Part One alongside a full roster of iconic DC heroes, including Ben Affleck’s Batman, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, Ray Fisher’s Cyborg, Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and Henry Cavill’s Superman. Willem Dafoe is also attached in a mystery role while the film is expected to also feature appearances by Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. Making their big screen DC Universe debuts are Amber Heard as Mera and J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon.

The Flash boasts an original treatment by The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Look for it to hit theaters March 16, 2018. Justice League will hit first, however, targeting a November 17, 2017 debut.

Chris Miller and Phil Lord can't wait to see what new The Flash director Rick Famuyiwa brings to the story they helped create.

The duo penned a treatment for Warner Bros.'s standalone The Flash movie, which former director Seth Grahame-Smith developed into a screenplay. After Grahame-Smith's exit from the project, Famuyima was tapped to helm the movie.

Calling Famuyima's hiring "the best," Lord told IGN that he's excited to have the Dope director working on The Flash, especially since he, Lord and Miller have worked together before.

"We work with Rick and have been developing a pilot with him for a little while and are really big fans of his and Dope," said Lord while promoting the duo's new FOX series Son of Zorn. "I think he's a rad choice."

Miller added, "He's going to do a great job on it."

Lord, Miller and Famuyima have been developing a Greatest American Hero remake for FOX. The network gave the project a pilot production commitment in October 2015.

When IGN visited the set of Justice League recently, Executive Movies Editor Jim Vejvoda was struck by how much lightness Ezra Miller's The Flash brought to the film. When asked whether that was anything Lord and Miller brought to the character prior to their work on his solo movie, the duo explained it's actually the other way around.

"They had that planned for him in the first place," Miller said. "That's why they were talking to us in the first place because that's how they wanted to go with that character, and I think that's why they came to us."

"That's all Ezra," Lord noted.

The duo understand the comparison between the dynamic The Flash is bringing to the Justice League and how Spider-Man brought a breath of fresh air to the Avengers in Captain America: Civil War.

"He brings in new energy," said Miller. "Batman has to be kind of bummed out because his parents died and Superman is already established as a serious person and Wonder Woman's angry about stuff. Stuff's happening. But then you've got a guy who's like, 'Eh, whatever, I run fast!'"

Three names have today emerged that are said to be on the short list to play The Flash female lead. Variety reports that Kiersey Clemons, who previously starred in The Flash director Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope, is the frontrunner for the role while The Hollywood Reporter‘s Borys Kit took to Twitter to reveal that both Lucy Boynton (Sing Street) and Rita Ora (50 Shades of Grey) are also in the running.

Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Perks of Being a Wallflower) is set to play Barry Allen, aka The Flash, in the feature, following his recent cameo appearance in this year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Miller’s version of the Flash is also set to appear in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Justice League alongside a full roster of iconic DC heroes, including Ben Affleck’s Batman, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, Ray Fisher’s Cyborg, Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and Henry Cavill’s Superman.

Although it has not yet been revealed exactly which character the Flash female lead might be, the trade report suggests we’ll see a new version of Iris West. Iris is currently played by Candice Patton on The CW‘s small screen take on the scarlet speedster. It is believed that the character may first appear in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Justice League, set to hit theaters November 17, 2017.

The Flash boasts an original treatment by The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It is currently without an official release date, although production is planned to start this year.